Biography of Guily Joffrin
Guily Joffrin (born July 30, 1909 in Paris) is a French painter who died on November 29, 2006. She is known for her expressive portraits and compositions highlighting the feminine nude.
After graduating as a drawing teacher from the city of Paris and the state, she teaches in Paris, Aurillac and at the École normale in this city. As early as 1945, she left school to devote herself entirely to her career as a painter and illustrator. She created numerous portraits of personalities in the arts and literature, including Paul Guth, Suzanne Flon, Yvette Alde and Madeleine Robinson. It also illustrates many books and composes stained glass windows for two churches in Brittany. Between 1944 and 1995, she organized more than 40 exhibitions in France and abroad, notably in Paris, Aurillac, Rennes, Strasbourg, Reims, Rodez, Toulouse, Barbizon, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Cannes, Geneva, Vevey, San Francisco and Tokyo.
He is particularly interested in the human face, and he makes numerous portraits, especially of personalities of the arts and letters. Much of his work is devoted to compositions in which the female nude plays an important role.
The Gallery 125 offers works by Guily Joffrin, available for sale online and in the gallery. These pieces offer art lovers the opportunity to acquire works reflecting the artist's artistic sensitivity and poetic universe, demonstrating his talent to capture the essence of his subjects.
